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Perspectives on Politics was established in 2003 and is published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association. Jennifer Hochschild served as the founding editor from 2002 to 2005.
The current editors-in-chief are Ana Arjona and Wendy Pearlman, both of Northwestern University, who took over in 2023. The associate editor is Shmuel Nili, also of Northwestern University.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, Perspectives on Politics had a 2016 impact factor of 3.234. That placed it 8th out of 165 journals in the Political Science category.
Perspectives on Politics is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index and Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences. These are major scholarly indexing systems used by researchers across the social sciences.
Cambridge University Press publishes Perspectives on Politics on behalf of the American Political Science Association. It is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering political science.
The journal's editorial history includes Jennifer Hochschild (2002-2005), James Johnson (2005-2008), Jeffrey C. Isaac (2009-2017), and Michael Bernhard with Daniel I. O'Neill (2017-2023). Ana Arjona and Wendy Pearlman became editors in 2023.